Mirjana Lučić-Baroni

Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
2013 at the Australian Open
Nation:	Croatia
Birthday:	March 9, 1982
Size:	181 cm
Weight:	65 kg
1st professional season:	1997
Resignation:	2018
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Marin Bradarić
Prize money:	$ 4,253,458
singles
Career record:	401: 326
Career title:	3 WTA , 4 ITF
Highest ranking:	20 (May 1, 2017)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	85:87
Career title:	3 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	19 (October 26 1998)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Mirjana Lučić-Baroni (born March 9, 1982 in Dortmund , Germany as Mirjana Lučić ) is a former Croatian tennis player .

Career

Lučić started playing tennis at the age of four and turned professional in 1997. She dominated the Junior Tour, winning the US Open in 1996 and the Australian Open in 1997 . As a 13-year-old she reached the semi-finals of the girls' competition at the Australian Open in 1996. She played her first professional tournament at an ITF tournament in Salzburg; she immediately reached the final, which she lost to Chanda Rubin . She won the double finals alongside Rubin.

At her first WTA tournament in Bol , she was the first player to win the title on her debut, and with Amanda Coetzer she also defeated a top ten player. She also won the doubles competition. At her second tournament in Strasbourg she was also in the final and first had to admit defeat to Steffi Graf . She made her Grand Slam debut at the US Open , where, after two clear wins in the opening rounds, she narrowly lost to Jana Novotná .

Between April 1996 and April 1998 she played 17 games for the Croatian Fed Cup team . She suffered only one defeat in 13 singles (doubles 2: 2).

When she won the double title at the Australian Open with the then world number one Martina Hingis in 1998, at the age of 15 she was the youngest player to ever win a major title. The final against Lindsay Davenport and Natallja Swerawa ended 6: 4, 2: 6 and 6: 3. At Wimbledon , Lučić celebrated her greatest sporting success in 1999 when she reached the semifinals after a sensational victory over Monica Seles , in which she had to admit defeat to Steffi Graf with 7: 6, 4: 6 and 3: 6.

After personal problems as a result of massive physical violence on the part of her father, Lučić fell far behind in the world rankings in 2000. In 2004 and 2005 she only played one game each, in the 2006 season she did not start at all.

In 2007 she played again at ITF tournaments, later on the WTA tour . In 2010 she won two ITF singles titles in the USA. At Wimbledon in 2012 she defeated the previous year's finalist as a qualifier in the second round with Marion Bartoli ; in round three she was eliminated by Roberta Vinci .

Lučić was never able to establish himself in the top 100 any longer; She only celebrated her big comeback at the end of 2014 at the age of 32. At the US Open , she was in the second round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in 15 years and caused a big surprise with her victory over world number two, Simona Halep . At the Coupe Banque Nationale in Québec, she then secured the title in both competitions in September 2014. In the individual final, she defeated Venus Williams in straight sets ; she won the final in doubles on the side of Lucie Hradecká against Julia Görges and Andrea Hlaváčková also in straight sets.

After the Australian Open 2018 in January 2018, exactly 20 years after she won the doubles title there, she ended her career and has not been in the world rankings since January 2019.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 4, 1997	Bol	WTA Tier IV	sand	Corina Morariu	7: 5, 6: 7, 7: 6
2.	August 3, 1997	Makarska	ITF $ 75,000	sand	Sandra Dopfer	6: 1, 6: 4
3.	May 3, 1998	Bol	WTA Tier IV	sand	Corina Morariu	6: 2, 6: 4
4th	April 11, 2010	Jackson	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Jamie Hampton	7: 5, 6: 3
5.	September 26, 2010	Albuquerque	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court	Lindsay Lee-Waters	6: 1, 6: 4
6th	October 13, 2013	Joué-lès-Tours	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	To-Sophie Mestach	6: 4, 6: 2
7th	September 14, 2014	Quebec	WTA International	Carpet (hall)	Venus Williams	6: 4, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	December 15, 1996	Salzburg	ITF $ 25,000	Carpet (hall)	Chanda Ruby	Adriana Barna Anca Barna	6: 3, 6: 2
2.	January 30, 1998	Australian Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Martina Hingis	Lindsay Davenport Natallja Swerawa	6: 4, 2: 6, 6: 3
3.	February 7, 1998	Tokyo	WTA Tier I	Carpet (hall)	Martina Hingis	Lindsay Davenport Natallja Swerawa	7: 5, 6: 4
4th	4th November 2012	New Braunfels	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Jelena Bowina	Mariana Duque Mariño Adriana Pérez	6: 3, 4: 6, [10: 8]
5.	February 10, 2013	Midland	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court (hall)	Melinda Czink	Maria Fernanda Alves Samantha Murray	5: 7, 6: 4, [10: 7]
6th	September 14, 2014	Quebec	WTA International	Carpet (hall)	Lucie Hradecká	Julia Görges Andrea Hlaváčková	6: 3, 7: 6 8

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003 - 2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	Career
Australian Open	-	2	1	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	1	1	1	HF	2	HF
French Open	-	-	1	1	3	2	-	-	1	1	1	1	3	2	1	-	3
Wimbledon	-	2	HF	2	-	-	-	1	1	3	2	1	2	1	1	-	HF
US Open	3	3	2	1	-	1	-	2	2	1	1	AF	1	2	2	-	AF

Double

competition	1998	1999	2000	2001 - 2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	Career
Australian Open	S.	1	2	-	-	-	AF	2	1	AF	VF	1	S.
French Open	-	-	-	-	2	-	AF	1	-	AF	2	-	AF
Wimbledon	-	-	-	-	-	2	VF	2	1	1	2	-	VF
US Open	1	1	-	-	1	1	AF	1	1	2	1	-	AF

Personal

On November 15, 2010, she married Daniele Baroni, since then she has had the double name Lučić-Baroni .

Web links

Commons : Mirjana Lučić-Baroni  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Mirjana Lučić-Baroni (English)
• ITF profile Mirjana Lučić-Baroni (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Mirjana Lučić-Baroni (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Bad Tennis Fathers